Field Notes: In Prospect (plus haiku)

Willow, weep.
Grackle, advance.
Cocoon, open…. This is somewhat similar to the one I saw last week, but attached to a lamp post instead of suspended from a twig. Also, it’s darker. This one is just as big, though, just over an inch long, half or more wide. A big fat moth? What do you think? Should I bring it home to hatch it out? (Another mouth to feed! Or not, some adult lepidoptera don’t eat.) Word of the day, btw: holometabolism, or complete metamorphism, the four-stage process undergone by butterflies and moths and some beetles, ants, bees, wasps, flies, even fleas.

Willow reflection
marred by piece of floating junk
— humans in the wild